Just one note about the traditional way Dennis mentioned. I have nothing against it, especially when it is something you love to do. Perhaps then it is that job through which you are making a difference. And I have a feeling you’re doing some quite exciting things as part of your job, from what I heard in your other blog entry.

That said, I can’t even criticize anyone who has a job that they hate, but still do it because they feel there is no way out.. I accept that for some people that may even be true.. In any case, what we can do is provide some encouragement to ourselves and others to try to find a way to become more and therefore enable doing more good, hinting at the facts that there are possibilities spread around like dots that just need to be connected.

And of course there’s always the side that you need to pay for your living, food, electricity, …

I’d never call anybody greedy who handles all this the way you do. I do think you’re doing a great job with these great sites, and I absolutely think that you deserve to having a full-scale wallet-overflow.

I’ve always been the “traditional money-maker”. Having a regular job that sometimes is and sometimes isn’t exciting.
My time off work then has to be split up between being a husband, and soon father, and my projects, most of all EasyLFS.

Either way, if you earn your gold the “traditional way” or the “internet way”, you always gotta keep your stomach full and your dreams in reach.
That doesn’t make anybody a greedy bastard, as you put it so nicely, just because money starts piling up.
When I start piling money (not that I’m doing that right now) it’s for a reason, like getting new hardware, or a nice family-holiday.

For you it’s to support your projects, and even other projects. Which is a great cause, and not a bit selfish, because it’s always for others, not (only) for you.

1) Beg for donations. We all know how well that works .

2) Spend part of your time doing things that matter less or that are less fun, but for which you will get paid.

There is of course the third option of getting paid for doing what matters, and I believe this can be achieved by libervis network, but it will have to grow a lot (mostly in number of interesting things done) first.